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 Shelley Davidow is originally from South Africa. She has lived and worked in
South Africa, Zimbabwe, England, Germany, Qatar and the United States, among many things as a waitress, researcher, teacher, lecturer and mother more or less in that order.
In the Shadow of Inyangani, (young adult novel), was nominated for the first African Writer's Prize by Macmillan/Picador and BBC World. (Read extract)
She co-wrote the biography My Life with Aids-Charmayne Broadway's Story
(Southern Books, South Africa 1998), and her children's fantasy The Wise
Enchanter was published in 2006 by Bell Pond Books. She lives in Byron Bay, Australia with her husband and son.
The Eye of the Moon
 The Eye of the Moon (an immigrant memoir), is now
available from Rainy Nights Press in Oregon
(Click here to read extract)
"Daring. Courageous. Brilliant. Beautiful. Scrupulously truthful. The Eye of the Moon is unlike anything I've ever
read, and so astonishingly good I don't think I'll ever forget it."
–Molly Gloss, author of The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, and Wild Life.
Review of The Eye of the Moon
by Judith Barrington, author of Livesaving- a Memoir and Writing the Memoir-from Truth to Art
Shelley Davidow's extraordinary, lyrical prose is dense with fragrance, eroticism, and the poetry of recalled passion. The short sections read like perfect snapshots of
the past, holding a rhythm and deep sensuality reminiscent of French writers like Monique Wittig and Helene Sixous, whose work this memoir joins as a classic feminist tale--a gem of wisdom and beauty.
Although some readers may speak of Lolita, this heroine is far from that male-fantasy schoolgirl: here, a young woman is poised on the cusp o
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f adulthood seen, not through the eyes of her first, older lover, but from inside her own memory. In this
important memoir, Davidow's personal history lives alongside the unfolding, violent history of her homeland,
South Africa. Her own particular coming-of-age story walks the steaming red earth of that land, even when it
migrates to the frozen Midwest of the U.S.A., finally landing on a Pacific rim where peace, at least for the moment, seems possible. Judith Barrington
Advance review by Bette Husted, author of Above the Clearwater
Shelley Davidow has built a mandala, with truth as the single bright bead at the center. This artist walks
unblinking through the paradoxes of the colonization of both hemispheres, finding her way through the
clashing gates of story and silence, of courage and fear---whichever way the moon faces---by an earth-rooted
belief in love. She leaves us awed, breathing in time with her voice, holding this gift like ripe mangos, completed and circling on.
Bette Husted - Above the Clearwater
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NEW Early Reader and Phonetic Book series
Written and illustrated by Shelley Davidow [More info here]
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